IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,"
By Anonymous

"Hush little baby, don't say a word,"
By Anonymous

"Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top,"
By Anonymous

"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,"
By Anonymous

"Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,"
By Anonymous

V Mon. July [1747] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

VI Mon. August [1742] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster

X Mon. December [1744] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

XI Mon. January [1736] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

XII Mon. February [1746] hath xxviii days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Blasphemy First appeared in Poetry
By Maurice Manning

A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
By Ben Jonson

A Channel Crossing
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Charm
By David Ferry

A Description of the Morning
By Jonathan Swift

A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel
By John Fuller

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body
By Andrew Marvell

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell

A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure
By Andrew Marvell

A Dog's Life First appeared in Poetry
By Daniel Groves

A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb

A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw

A Lame Begger
By John Donne

A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne

A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass

A Lyric of the Dawn
By Edwin Markham

A Poison Tree
By William Blake

A Posy of Love Poems First appeared in Poetry
By William Walden

A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night
By Henry Timrod

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift

A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad XXVI: Along the field as we came by
By A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad XXX: Others, I am not the first
By A. E. Housman

A Song: When June is past, the fading rose
By Thomas Carew

A Student’s Prayer
By Anonymous

A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick

A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore

Abou Ben Adhem
By Leigh Hunt

Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part
By John Dryden

Across a Table
By Steven Cordova

Adam Posed
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns

After the Surprising Conversions
By Robert Lowell

Afton Water
By Robert Burns

Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I

American Solitude
By Grace Schulman

An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Autograph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne
By Thomas Carew

An Essay on Criticism: Part 1
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism: Part 2
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism: Part 3
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle I
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle II
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle III
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

An Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton

An Exchange between the Fingers and the Toes
By John Fuller

An Inscription
By Ambrose Bierce

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Another Grace for a Child
By Robert Herrick

Apple and Brute Stone
By Bei Dao

April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom

At a Vacation Exercise
By John Milton

At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey

At the Sea-Side
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Aubade
By Edith Sitwell

Autumn
By John Clare

“Alone”
By Edgar Allan Poe

Baby Ate a Microchip
By Neal Levin

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

Ballad of the Dream That Was Not Dreamed
By A. M. Klein

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Bermudas
By Andrew Marvell

Between
By Marie Ponsot

Bilingual/Bilingüe
By Rhina P. Espaillat

Blind Joy
By John Frederick Nims

Booker T. and W.E.B.
By Dudley Randall

Bricks and Straw
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Brock
By Paul Muldoon

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
By Richard Crashaw

Cacoethes Scribendi
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Catch a Little Rhyme
By Eve Merriam

Character of the Happy Warrior
By William Wordsworth

Christ’s Nativity
By Henry Vaughan

Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb

Clorinda and Damon
By Andrew Marvell

Color
By Christina Rossetti

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Cozy Apologia First appeared in Poetry
By Rita Dove

Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Days of Our Years
By John Frederick Nims

Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

December Substitute
By Kenn Nesbitt

DECEMBER. [1757] XII Month.
By Benjamin Franklin

Decline and Fall First appeared in Poetry
By John Frederick Nims

Defeated
By Sophie Jewett

Delight in Disorder
By Robert Herrick

Descriptive Jottings of London
By William McGonagall

Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah
By Richard Crashaw

Do Not!
By Stevie Smith

Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747
By Samuel Johnson

Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Egg First appeared in Poetry
By Brian Swann

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
By Alexander Pope

Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne

Eloisa to Abelard
By Alexander Pope

Emily Brontë
By Louise Imogen Guiney

from Endymion
By John Keats

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Epicoene, or the Silent Woman: Still to be neat, still to be drest
By Ben Jonson

Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson

from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
By Alexander Pope

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
By Alexander Pope

Epitaph
By Katherine Philips

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson

Experience
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fable for a War
By Thomas James Merton

Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
By John Dryden

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
By Robert Lowell

Fancy
By John Keats

Fate
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Follow Your Saint
By Thomas Campion

For Christmas Day
By Charles Wesley

For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
By Charles Wesley

Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Good Morning, Dear Students
By Kenn Nesbitt

Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gradations of Blue
By Matthea Harvey

Greenland’s Icy Mountains
By William McGonagall

Halloween Party
By Kenn Nesbitt

Hard Luck
By Edgar Albert Guest

Hero and Leander
By Christopher Marlowe

His Return to London
By Robert Herrick

His Wish to God
By Robert Herrick

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

Home
By Edgar Albert Guest

Hymn to Proserpine (After the Proclamation in Rome of the Christian Faith)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hypocrite Auteur First appeared in Poetry
By Archibald MacLeish

I Heard an Angel
By William Blake

I Hid my Love
By John Clare

I’m Glad I’m Me
By Phil Bolsta

Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea
By Walter Savage Landor

If Love now Reigned as it hath been
By Henry VIII, king of England

Il Penseroso
By John Milton

Imitations of Horace
By Alexander Pope

In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I

In Harvest
By Sophie Jewett

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH
By Anne Bradstreet

In Piam Memoriam
By Geoffrey Hill

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

In the Holiday Inn
By Dannie Abse

In the Valley of Cauteretz
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Infant Sorrow
By William Blake

Interview
By Dorothy Parker

Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
By William Blake

Irony
By Louis Untermeyer

January, 1795
By Mary Robinson

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

Jottings of New York: A Descriptive Poem
By William McGonagall

Juan’s Song
By Louise Bogan

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

June Twenty, Three Days After
By Miller Williams

Katie
By Henry Timrod

L'Allegro
By John Milton

from Lalla Rookh
By Thomas Moore

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Lara: Canto the First
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Leap Year Poem
By Anonymous

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie

Locksley Hall
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Long Finger Poem First appeared in Poetry
By Jin Eun-Young

Looking Forward
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love Poem for an Enemy First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Katrovas

Love's Alchemy
By John Donne

Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lullaby
By John Fuller

Lusty Youth should us ensue
By Henry VIII, king of England

Ma Rainey
By Sterling A. Brown

Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden

Madrigal in Time of War
By John Frederick Nims

Magic First appeared in Poetry
By Louis Untermeyer

March: An Ode
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marching Men
By Marjorie Pickthall

Matins First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

MAY. [1748] III Month.
By Benjamin Franklin

Men Say They Know Many Things
By Henry David Thoreau

Merry-No-Round First appeared in Poetry
By Bill Knott

Moly
By Thom Gunn

Money
By Philip Larkin

Montana Pastoral
By J. V. Cunningham

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

My Brother’s Bear
By Bruce Lansky

My God First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Rolston

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Nocturne
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Northern Farmer: Old Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

November Cotton Flower
By Jean Toomer

Nuremberg
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Obbligato First appeared in Poetry
By Bruce Smith

Of the Last Verses in the Book
By Edmund Waller

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller

On a View of Pasadena from the Hills
By Yvor Winters

On an Anniversary
By J. M. Synge

On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
By Charles Lamb

On Being Brought from Africa to America
By Phillis Wheatley

On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On Mr. G. Herbert's Book
By Richard Crashaw

On Munsungun First appeared in Poetry
By Ethan Stebbins

On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest

On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton

On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet
By Jonathan Swift

On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters

One Girl of Many
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Only a Dad
By Edgar Albert Guest

Our Bungalow
By Ruth Lilly

Our Willie
By Henry Timrod

Pangur Bán First appeared in Poetry
By Anonymous

Parting Song First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Alexander Essbaum

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Pastorals
By Alexander Pope

Peter Quince at the Clavier
By Wallace Stevens

Piano
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Poem of Disconnected Parts First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Pinsky

Poem [“At night Chinamen jump”]
By Frank O'Hara

Poorly Dressed
By Bruce Lansky

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale
By Edmund Spenser

Protus
By Robert Browning

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Queens
By J. M. Synge

Rain along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Reapers
By Jean Toomer

Recitative First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Recuerdo First appeared in Poetry
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Religio Laici
By John Dryden

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Romance
By Claude McKay

Sad and Alone First appeared in Poetry
By Maurice Manning

Satire III
By John Donne

Satire IV
By John Donne

Saul
By Robert Browning

Second Fig
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Shaemus
By Conrad Aiken

She Was a Phantom of Delight
By William Wordsworth

Shiver & You Have Weather
By Matthea Harvey

Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Some Questions about the Storm
By Hilda Raz

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors
By William Wordsworth

Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
By Leigh Hunt

Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare

Song to Amarantha, that she would Dishevel her Hair
By Richard Lovelace

Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake

Spring Music First appeared in Poetry
By Frederick Feirstein

Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
By Jonathan Swift

Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
By Jonathan Swift

Strange Meeting
By Wilfred Owen

Strangers
By Annie Finch

Summer
By John Clare

Summer
By Conrad Aiken

Sunt Leones
By Stevie Smith

Symphony of a Mexican Garden First appeared in Poetry
By Grace Hazard Conkling

Tam O 'Shanter
By Robert Burns

Thanksgiving
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Age Demanded
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Airy Christ
By Stevie Smith

The Argument of his Book
By Robert Herrick

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Author to Her Book
By Anne Bradstreet

The Baby's Dance
By Ann Taylor

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
By Robert Herrick

The Bait
By John Donne

The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Battle of Omdurman
By William McGonagall

The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
By William McGonagall

The Beasts' Confession
By Jonathan Swift

The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton

The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Bungalows
By John Ashbery

The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ

The Calm
By John Donne

The Canonization
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chambered Nautilus
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Character of Holland
By Andrew Marvell

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young
By William Blake

The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas

The Cook's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Curse
By J. M. Synge

The Daring One
By Edwin Markham

The Debt
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Dolls
By John Ciardi

The Duffel Bag First appeared in Poetry
By David Harsent

The Dunciad: Book IV
By Alexander Pope

The Egoist
By William H. Dickey

The Famous Tay Whale
By William McGonagall

The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Flaming Heart
By Richard Crashaw

The Folk Who Live in Backward Town
By Mary Ann Hoberman

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Gallery
By Andrew Marvell

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Hidden Glacier
By Edwin Markham

The Higher Pantheism
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Hind and the Panther: Part I
By John Dryden

The Homer Mitchell Place
By John Engels

The Housewife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Iliad
By Alexander Pope

The Journey
By Yvor Winters

The Kindergarten Concert
By Robert Pottle

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Lamb
By William Blake

The Land of Nod
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Lay for the Troubled Golfer
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall

The Little Orphan
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor

The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

the mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mower
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower against Gardens
By Andrew Marvell

The Net First appeared in Poetry
By Babette Deutsch

The New Decalogue
By Ambrose Bierce

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
By Andrew Marvell

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Old Clock on the Stairs
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Panther
By Edwin Markham

The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe

The Piper First appeared in Poetry
By Joseph Campbell

The Poet's Life: From Martial's Epigrams First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Schmidgall

The Potato Eaters
By Leonard E. Nathan

The Preface
By Edward Taylor

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5
By Alexander Pope

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Relic
By John Donne

The Retired Cat
By William Cowper

The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan

The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth

The Rock in the Sea
By Archibald MacLeish

The Secret
By Anonymous

The Seventeenth Book Of Homer's Odysseys
By George Chapman

The Shadow Of Night
By George Chapman

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads
By George Chapman

The Skylark
By John Clare

The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie

The Slow Pacific Swell
By Yvor Winters

The Spring
By Thomas Carew

The Star
By Ann Taylor

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith

The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Tay Bridge Disaster
By William McGonagall

The Things
By Conrad Aiken

The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Time of Youth is to be Spent
By Henry VIII, king of England

The Tree
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The True Born Englishman
By Daniel Defoe

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Tunning of Elenor Rumming
By John Skelton

The Twins
By Robert W. Service

The Tyger
By William Blake

The Unfortunate Lover
By Andrew Marvell

The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod

The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Valley of Unrest
By Edgar Allan Poe

from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

The War Horse
By Eavan Boland

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The World
By Henry Vaughan

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

Though that Men do Call it Dotage
By Henry VIII, king of England

Thoughts in a Zoo
By Countee Cullen

Three Poets First appeared in Poetry
By Robert West

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
By Phillis Wheatley

To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth

To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To Any Reader
By Robert Louis Stevenson

To Ben Jonson
By Thomas Carew

To Heaven
By Ben Jonson

To his Conscience
By Robert Herrick

To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell

To John Donne
By Ben Jonson

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
By Ben Jonson

To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
By John Dryden

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden

To My Old City
By W. S. Di Piero

To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair
By Jonathan Swift

To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry

To the King on his Navy
By Edmund Waller

To the Ladies
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
By Ben Jonson

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
By John Dryden

To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Thursday; the Bassette-Table
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Wednesday; The Tête à Tête
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Trees
By Joyce Kilmer

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat!
By Lewis Carroll

Two Portraits
By Henry Timrod

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
By Richard Crashaw

Under the Dome
By Elise Paschen

Under Two Windows First appeared in Poetry
By Schuyler Van Rensselaer

Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax
By Andrew Marvell

Upon Parson Beanes
By Robert Herrick

Upon the Disobedient Child
By John Bunyan

Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
By Andrew Marvell

Upon the Loss of his Mistresses
By Robert Herrick

Upon the Vine-tree
By John Bunyan

Veni, Creator Spiritus
By John Dryden

Vers de Société
By Philip Larkin

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
By Jonathan Swift

Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666
By Anne Bradstreet

Volpone: Come my Celia, let us prove
By Ben Jonson

Was He Married?
By Stevie Smith

We Old Dudes First appeared in Poetry
By Joan Murray

We Real Cool First appeared in Poetry
By Gwendolyn Brooks

We Tend to Sleep Better When the Clock Is Wound First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

Wee Willie Winkie
By Anonymous

What Kind of Mistress He would Have
By Robert Herrick

When he would have his Verses Read
By Robert Herrick

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

Why Angels Disappeared
By Dannie Abse

Why Are Your Poems So Dark? First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

Wight First appeared in Poetry
By Stanley Plumly

William I
By Eleanor Farjeon

With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce

Working Habits
By George Starbuck

Written for my Son, and Spoken by Him at his First Putting on Breeches
By Mary Barber

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed
By Walter Savage Landor

Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold